Post AcOIMssSAjh6ppMHdg by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
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(DIR) Post #AcLO4s2sXiZlIF9Hjk by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-11-30T21:00:51Z
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No people: Seriously. Listen to me, Right Now:If you're not using tools from comparative religious studies, then you are missing MASSIVELY important contextual cues about a LARGE swathe of past and present-day tech culture, and also potential insights for how to both react to and shape those discourses.https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/30/elon-says-copyright-ai-lawsuits-dont-matter-because-digital-god-will-arrive-before-theyre-decided/
(DIR) Post #AcLOeCTsYXQuoAcls0 by fmhueffer@mastodon.social
2023-11-30T21:07:06Z
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@Wolven thinking about all of the UK humanists who went full PR for this fucker
(DIR) Post #AcLOgF3LxofzMgBsem by SnoopJ@hachyderm.io
2023-11-30T21:07:49Z
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@Wolven holy crap, that first question is absolutely clown-shoes journalistic malpractice.I wonder if Sorkin has any clue at all how goofy his framing was.
(DIR) Post #AcLOmi4H04gB5ehmGO by kellogh@hachyderm.io
2023-11-30T21:08:51Z
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@Wolven are we stuck in a Dune novel?
(DIR) Post #AcLOrjimHSrzfL314i by davealvarado@hachyderm.io
2023-11-30T21:09:45Z
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@Wolven given that Elon says all the quiet Silicon Valley parts out loud...I'm guessing he's not the only one talking about how Digital God is gonna be here in less time than it takes to settle a federal lawsuit.
(DIR) Post #AcLPeSgQPr0t0sBIKO by crashglasshouses@tsukihi.me
2023-11-30T21:18:42Z
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@Wolven it's literally Scientology 2.0
(DIR) Post #AcLQEEuz4WYWkK3ExM by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-11-30T21:25:09Z
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And this isn't new news! It's old shit! We had a hardcore technopaganism revival in the 80s & 90s, into the 2000s, and even before that Jack Parsons was out there doing Thelemite Alchemical Sex Magick to make rockets go better. (I am in no way joking: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-15549-0_9)And even THAT wasn't then-contemporaneously new news! It was remix!
(DIR) Post #AcLR2xarFCA1mdp4im by fifilamoura@eldritch.cafe
2023-11-30T21:34:16Z
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@Wolven People often have no idea about how deeply weird and mystical/religious a lot of military and war stuff is between the Christians, the Satanists/want to have psychic powers. Jack Parsons was deeply involved in the Temple of the Golden Dawn, along with L Ron Hubbard (who went on to start his own cult). The TV show about Parsons, Strange Angel, is actually pretty good! https://daily.jstor.org/sex-cult-rocket-man/
(DIR) Post #AcLR48SYKVtPm1UyPY by Mungencakes@kolektiva.social
2023-11-30T21:34:28Z
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@Wolven How Muskelon sees everyone but himself.
(DIR) Post #AcLRSsFpiXC6knLTYe by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-11-30T21:39:01Z
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The threads of religious, spiritual, and epistemic belief, and the the threads of religious, spiritual, occult, and technological practice are bound together, branch to root, and if you're denying or ignoring that, then you're missing so very much which might otherwise help us all.
(DIR) Post #AcLSctWByOIxWWL5SC by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2023-11-30T21:52:00Z
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the technocrat movement that landed Elon Musk's father in a Canadian "enemy of the state" was basically a self-proclaimed Illuminati movement; but the 'wealth' was in measured in patents and gizmos. i agree techbros are a secularized death cult. @Wolven
(DIR) Post #AcLSeKe4bIUVwji8au by draNgNon@hachyderm.io
2023-11-30T21:52:11Z
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@Wolven I just finished moving my complete collection of Omni Magazines into new bags & boardsWhat you are saying is so, so, obvious when looking over their content and ads as a set.
(DIR) Post #AcLUYX8bRP56rULzYu by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-11-30T22:13:41Z
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@bri_seven That's what I was talking about when I mentioned Parsons, and even all the way back to Newton, and frankly, as far back as we've been crafting things, as a species.
(DIR) Post #AcLVPi6TOxOiDdiLTs by tg9541@mas.to
2023-11-30T22:23:17Z
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@Wolven there is no need to dramatize that - magical spells and technology share the same root in human nature. Science isn't immune: scientism is akin to a religion and scientists can be the priests (and would-be-scientists, too).
(DIR) Post #AcLYMjWLyVHvbo5jg8 by crashglasshouses@tsukihi.me
2023-11-30T22:56:20Z
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@Wolven it seems like a lot of occultists throughout history have been shady, fashy con men. technology is just another thing they've attached themselves to, because capitalism encourages it.
(DIR) Post #AcLYdH0xDLnq7XI9BI by KCDOZ@mastodon.social
2023-11-30T22:59:20Z
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@Wolven I used to spend quite a bit of time digging through Disinfo.Com in the early days of the internet and found some pretty mindblowing things, alongside your standard well-trodden conspiracies based on race replacement, CIA ops, hollow earth and what have you. That site was just ROTTEN with technopagan shite...back when it was, you know, FUN to think about and not really an active threat.
(DIR) Post #AcLb5PgCn3850p8Gy8 by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-11-30T23:26:45Z
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@JackEric Both.
(DIR) Post #AcLcDweeArF7YL2HAG by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-11-30T23:39:32Z
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(Reminder that my wholeass dissertation is available to read online for free: https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/111528)
(DIR) Post #AcLjhr6o3be2ifPtDs by jjfphd@zirk.us
2023-12-01T01:03:23Z
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@Wolven Like how Turing has that whole discussion of telepathy and how plausibly it might ruin the Imitation Game in "Computing, Machine and Intelligence"?I find that section so interesting and wild, but don't know what to make of it! My undergrad minor in Religious Studies is just too long ago, I think!!
(DIR) Post #AcLoTu1SvUanTP5Ii8 by DoesntExist@mastodon.social
2023-12-01T01:56:54Z
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@Wolven What happens if I remain agnostic in the face of Musk's "digital god?"
(DIR) Post #AcLpIhOjclHp5TBqfg by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-12-01T02:06:02Z
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@apophis Shinto, Buddhism, and Daoism do for sure reward and lead to more harmonious designhttps://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C34&q=%22shinto%22+%22japanese%22+%22technology%22&btnG=
(DIR) Post #AcMVFScsHlk6TkwTuC by considermycat@eldritch.cafe
2023-12-01T09:55:58Z
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Great video on this from Religion for Breakfast, and I’m sure it’s no coincidence that YouTube surfaced it for me this week @Wolven https://youtu.be/jk2aUz00_AY?si=DK6EJDiR66EuiavO
(DIR) Post #AcN0JAunApttHpZesK by playinprogress@assemblag.es
2023-12-01T15:43:42Z
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@Wolven Imho this point was also very eloquently made by Erik Davis in "TechGnosis", which came out no less than *25* years ago. Old enough for me to have read it as a teenager and been influenced by it for a decade+ long (now abandoned) attempt at an academic career as a HistSci person. (I should probably reread it, I have no idea how well it holds up now and in what ways...and uhhhhh, new foreword by Eugene Thacker.)https://techgnosis.com/books/techgnosis/
(DIR) Post #AcN2NDtuDNPFc5DYCe by Jer@chirp.enworld.org
2023-12-01T16:07:18Z
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@Wolven @bri_seven h. Astronomy has always been a religious endeavor.Heck Pythagoras was a religious figure - the math supported the cult not the other way around.Science has always had spiritual/occult/religious tones to it. As has engineering. You're absolutely right that people should learn about this (especially scientists and engineers, who should understand their disciple more).
(DIR) Post #AcNVkyV61MsdTHI6Hg by Di4na@hachyderm.io
2023-12-01T21:36:24Z
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@Wolven oh ffs. I agree with you (for years unknowingly) and so now i have one more massive treaty to add to the pile. And close to the top.How am i supposed to empty the pile at this speed!!! (Not. I know. Still. Damn you ;) )
(DIR) Post #AcNbx044dAkZWRlioy by Oozenet@mastodon.social
2023-12-01T22:45:52Z
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@Wolven Always good to see academics doing good work and distributing it openly. Good job! I used to only have mine on my institution's repository too but I now have it on my blog in episodic form and it gets more reads there. I think an entire dissertation can be overwhelming.Do you have a text file that I can run through my text to speech software please?
(DIR) Post #AcNwWEgQGls44zmkQi by subtl@aus.social
2023-12-02T02:36:24Z
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@Wolven I'm not sure why the article author keeps asserting that training an llm on copyrighted material is definitely fair use.
(DIR) Post #AcNwcWnJqT7PzK0lKC by SunMcNukes@freespeechextremist.com
2023-12-02T02:37:50.141036Z
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@subtl @Wolven that's because copyright is a lie, you can't own ideas.
(DIR) Post #AcO9QII5F8EMvztjFo by lonelyowl@freespeechextremist.com
2023-12-02T05:01:17.414707Z
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@Wolven What's the deal? Woketards again are trying to push some nonsense like all tech people are nazi lunatics based on the silly shit elon said?
(DIR) Post #AcOIMssSAjh6ppMHdg by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-12-02T06:41:15Z
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@playinprogress I cite erik in basically everything I write about this, yeah
(DIR) Post #AcOIlCT4zBQOXp5JS4 by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-12-02T06:45:38Z
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@Di4na The unending TBR pile is something we all must come to grips with, in our own time 😔 Sorry/You're Welcome/Thank You for my work adding to yours
(DIR) Post #AcOIw65j2CPXx9MCu0 by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-12-02T06:47:36Z
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@Oozenet I made sure my PDF in the repository was screen-reader compliant, but if a doc or docx file will be better, let me know and I'll see if I can send one your way
(DIR) Post #AcPeIBYhgD8rTaFG9g by Oozenet@mastodon.social
2023-12-02T22:21:33Z
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@Wolven Thanks. I will give it a go.